Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

[Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>]

Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> My impression is that people become lazy
> since uscan and similar tools exist and are not enough in contact with
> their upstreams anymore. I may be wrong, though...
> Watch files are nice to have, but nothing more.
> 

But there are cases where any attempt of contact with upstream is futile;
which is by the way an irrelevant argument for this discussion, as the
discussion is about the meaning of get-orig-source and not whether a tool
should be trusted or not.

Cheers,
Raphael Geissert